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Raila convenes urgent meeting following MPs’ defiance in Parliament

ODM leader Raila Odinga. [File, Standard]

Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga will tomorrow chair a meeting of the party’s top brass to discuss the defiance of some MPs over the controversial fuel tax.

The central committee meeting comes against the backdrop of last Thursday’s chaotic session in the National Assembly during which some of the party’s lawmakers openly defied Raila’s position in supporting President Uhuru Kenyatta’s memorandum over the Finance Bill, 2018.

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